Category: Go Inspire
SUP Lass Paddle Adventures Amazon SUP Challenge 2024.
SUP Lass Paddle Adventures – aka Caz Dawson – along with Jonathan Gill and Matthew Phillips will be paddling a 330km route along the Amazon River. The Amazon SUP Challenge 2024 takes place between 2nd-10th June 2024 and McConks has been chosen as the team’s board sponsor. Engagement with local communities via SUP. The aim […]
SUP4 the lifesavers
Rachel and 17 other hardy paddlers are embarking on a SUP marathon today (Saturday 4th September) to raise money for the London Air Ambulance. This is a great cause, so if you’ve got some spare change in your digital wallet, please donate to support. And if you’re in the London area and want to support […]
McConks and The Kepplewray Project: working to get young people and hard to reach communities on the water.
McConks and The Kepplewray Project: working to get young people and hard to reach communities on the water.
In case you missed it – McConks on BBC’s Countryfile.
Did you see it? Stand up paddle boarding on Countryfile this Sunday just gone (November 24, 2020)? As an advert for SUP (and McConks we might add) it’s great to see mainstream media taking notice. And with the theme of ‘countryside healing’ – in light of current global events – we concur there’s no better […]
Happy Environmenstrual week!
It seems timely to start this article with a little story about a recent trip to Cardiff. Andy suggested it would be nice for he and I to go for a city paddle whilst the boys had a day out with his parents. Reader, he lied! It was quite a traumatic, unpleasant paddle, for me […]
Carolyn Smith’s Barford to Boston (Lincs) 32m SUP challenge nears…
Carolyn Smith and Phil May (from Yellowbelly SUP School), as we’ve talked about before, is planning on completing a mammoth stand up paddle board journey (in aid of charity) from Barford to Boston in Lincolnshire. Sept 28, 2020 marks the date when Carolyn and Phil are due to set off. Covering 32 miles this is […]
Fenwick Ridley: SUP (and swim) river missions for charity – Kielder to Quayside mission complete!
Fenwick Ridley: SUP (and swim) river missions for charity – Kielder to Quayside mission complete!
Go Inspire raffle success! Now’s your chance to make a difference – apply now…
Go Inspire funding applications now open.
NCW, North Coast Wetsuits, who are they?
NCW (North Coast Wetsuits) provided the Long John wetsuit for McConks’ Go Inspire raffle.
Bounce back (BIG) to SUP #2
Bounce back (BIG) to SUP #2 The BIG SUP bounce back is in full effect. Paddlers everywhere are preparing themselves for when beaches and waterways are available for stand up paddle boarding once again. We’re not suggesting everybody’s fully out of the woods just yet – as far as COVID-19 goes. There’s still a long […]
McConks reading corner #2: The river; the recluse – never judge a SUP by its cover.
McConks reading corner#2: The river; the recluse – never judge a SUP by its cover. Welcome to the second instalment of the McConks reading corner. Be sure to check out the first here – The Fisherman: an ocean lesson for us all. He was a little odd that’s for sure. Some may even call him […]
